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person_profile-Lee De Forest

Lee De Forest Died at age: 87

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Lee De Forest

Date of Birth:

Aug 26, 1873

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jun 30, 1961

Biography of

Lee De Forest

    Lee de Forest, (born August 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S.—died June 30, 1961, Hollywood, California), American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, which made possible live radio broadcasting and became the key component of all radio, telephone, radar, television, and computer systems before the invention of the transistor in 1947. Although de Forest was bitter over the financial exploitation of his inventions by others, he was widely honoured as the “father of radio” and the “grandfather of television.” He was supported strongly but unsuccessfully for the Nobel Prize for Physics.

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Lee De Forest

Photos ( 1 Photos

Filmography of

Lee De Forest

Found 1 Movies in total

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

Self - Objects to Quality of Radio Programming (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1991